Effects of Workers’ Remittances on the Home Country: The Case of Bulgaria Cover Image

Влияние на паричните преводи от емигрантите на изпращащите страни: на примера на България
Effects of Workers’ Remittances on the Home Country: The Case of Bulgaria

Author(s): Vesselin Minchev
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Migration Studies
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: return migrants; compensation of employees; workers’ remittances; remittance behaviour; for-purpose of remittances

Summary/Abstract: The present report reviews issues, related to the compensation of employees and the remittances of Bulgarian emigrants. Data based on information from international institutions and from the Bulgarian National Bank, regarding the relative shares of these two variables in GDP, is provided. On the basis of information from an empirical sociological study, carried out in 2017 within the project: “Return Migrants: Segmentation and Stratification of Economic Mobility” the profile of individuals supporting their relatives, who remained in the country, is outlined. An answer is sought to the question of what drives the remittance behaviour of the return migrants during their stay abroad.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 337-353
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian